Do you ask for it anyway?

I know what most here think of the gold colored Presidential dollars. So here's the question.

You don't collect them. You are at the store. You pay for your stuff. You got at least one dollar change coming back to you. The cashier's drawer opens up and you see one presidential dollar in the till. Even though you don't collect them, do you ask for it anyway?

If there's one or two, I'll ask for them. I put them in my rainy day jar.

 

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Nope.
If they tried to hand me one, I'd decline it and make them give me a dollar in some other form.
Hate those golden turds.

 

I don't use cash often, and when I do, I'm sad to say I don't pay much attention to change.

 

I personally wish we would get rid of the paper dollar and use Sacajawea dollars. The Presidential dollars are just plain ugly. I do have a set going though, BU and proof.

 

Don't ask for them.
Don't complain.
All spend the same.

 

Never, I might ask for halves though.

 

I tried spending pres dollars at a gas station once. The clerk looked at them and said "we don't take these here".

 

Interested in your views, Pilkenton, as you are from IN too, but in my small town, you can't avoid them! I have recieved them in change so frequently I think it's common place here. Hardware store, bakery, grocery, the local pizza hangout have all given me dollars in change. In fact, in the last two months I have recieved at least 26 of those golden beauties. I don't know if someone bought several bags and are dumping them everywhere or if the businesses actually prefer them. Either way this small town seems hammered with them.

 

I never see them, and people don't even seem to know what they are here.
I tried to spend a half once, and the girl didn't even think it was a real coin.

 

I get 2 proof sets each year, regular and silver, to fill my albums, so I do keep these in sets just because I am a captive audience by getting so many each year. Point is though, that I have an extra set for each year due to buying 2 proof sets, and I am seriously considering taking all those proof dollars that I am going to do nothing with and spending them to get some value out of them.

So there might be a small hoard of proof dollars showing up in registers around my town.

 

I take them whenever I can get them. At the bank, I always ask about any "weird" money. I take them home and put them in a piggy bank. Last time I emptied the piggy bank, it funded a $300 silver purchase at the coin shop. Added almost 10 oz of bullion to the stack and since I picked them up few at a time, it was like buying with free money.

I also take $2 bills, Halves and Eisenhowers. Most cashiers/tellers are happy to get rid of them.

 

You are like me, I don't even collect US really any more but always ask for the "weird stuff".

 

I take them and check their edges. Lots of minor error varieties with the lettering.
We have a snack machine at work that accepts and dispenses dollars coins. I'll mark one, put it in, and keep cycling through until I get my marked coin back. I found a 99 Anthony that way (I needed one for my collection).

 

I've come to realize most people have no idea they even exist. Which is good for me... I get 'em at the bank for face and sell 'em at the local flea market two for three dollars. I can sell as many as I can get. I picked up thirty last week along with forty Ikes (which are even better... they sell three for five).

 

Neither do I - I just make sure it is correct. It all spends to me - coins or dollar bills.

 

I'm the snark who gave them that not-really-gold dollar. That's why it was in their drawer. Still I freely acknowledge that its:dead-horse:They are to big, and to ugly. No one wants to carry around the bulk.

dimeguy ; you said "... but in my small town, you can't avoid them! "

The revolution has started.

 

I would be happy to take them with a 5% premium and pay the shipping.

 

I totally read your comment in this guys voice.

 

Hang on a sec -- they actually cycle back out the coins that they collect? I figured the coins that they return came from a hand-loaded dispenser, and the coins they collected just went into bins.

I've been restraining myself because I figured that running too much change through a vending machine would leave it short on returnable coins. If they really do cycle coins through, I'm totally going to town on the vending machines at work...!

 

I wouldn't ask for them. I do buy a roll or two whenever I go to the bank, though. I never get them back in change, but cashiers always seem to know what they are when I spend them.